I chowned all of the folders in the /usr/share/themes directory to my username (ke1v3y) and chmodded the folders to be readable by Others. After doing this (in hope of getting the themes to show up), I realized that when I opened my Appearance Settings, I now had NO themes visible.(...)I think the reason the themes didn't show up is because they're missing a specific file

I only said that if you only chowned and chmodded the files there, no file must be missing. (chmod and chown wont delete files)

Apologies for misquoting you! I should've looked more carefully when posting.

Anyways, the code you gave me just finished running; below is the output:

In the meantime, someone on another thread (not on the Arch site, but I digress) mentioned that themes would not show up in xfce4-appearance-settings if they didn't have the index.theme extension. The workaround they provided was to manually add those themes to the Appearance Settings; however, the person who posted was on a completely different distro (don't remember which one).

I wasn't sure if the theme.index files were omitted by a corrupt download or if there was something I was completely missing.

I chowned all of the folders in the /usr/share/themes directory to my username (ke1v3y) and chmodded the folders to be readable by Others. After doing this (in hope of getting the themes to show up), I realized that when I opened my Appearance Settings, I now had NO themes visible.(...)I think the reason the themes didn't show up is because they're missing a specific file

I only said that if you only chowned and chmodded the files there, no file must be missing. (chmod and chown wont delete files)

Thank you for your quick reply! I won't be home until later this afternoon, so I'll have to get back with you and let you know how it goes.

I think the reason the themes didn't show up is because they're missing a specific file (some kind of index--don't remember exactly from the thread).

I'll edit later with more info.

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=681012013-02-11T17:52:49Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1230464#p1230464Well, checking my /usr/share/themes dir, I see all my files there are owned by user root, group root. The permission for the files are 644, and the permission for dirs are 755.So, something like this may help:

(note this takes a looong time to finish)Do those commands as root. Make sure you are on the /usr/share/themes, and lastly but not less imporant: you are doing it on your own risk

EDIT: Ow, and by the way: store your manually downloaded themes on $HOME/.themes directory instead, or, even better, create PKGBUILDs for them and uploaded them to AUR

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=444912013-02-11T16:32:03Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1230422#p1230422At the top of this image in xfce4-appearance-settings ran as myself; at bottom is the same command as root.

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=681012013-02-11T15:51:55Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1230401#p1230401In a frantic noob-like mistake, I made a terrible life choice; here's the story.

I was playing around with Xfce themes in hope of finally finding one to satisfy my graphic designer self. Anyways, I unzipped one in the /usr/share/themes folder, at which point it was visible under my Appearance Settings. However, when I tried to add another one (following the same process), it did not show up as an available theme.

Well, herpderp me thought that the issue was the permissions/ownership, so I chowned all of the folders in the /usr/share/themes directory to my username (ke1v3y) and chmodded the folders to be readable by Others. After doing this (in hope of getting the themes to show up), I realized that when I opened my Appearance Settings, I now had NO themes visible.

Panicking, I ran

sudo xfce4-appearance-settings

to see if I would be able to view anything. To my slightly pleasant surprise, all of my original themes were present, but not the most recently added one.

Now I have two issues that I've come to bother you with:1. No user themes are available when I run xfce4-appearance-settings as myself2. I am unable to see certain themes when I run xfce4-appearance-settings as root (although I can see some)